Thursday, July 30, 2009

New York AG Sues to Overturn Default Judgments

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is going to court to try to overturn about 100,000 default judgments he claims were improperly obtained against consumers — including more than 6,000 in Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties.

The lawsuit, filed this week in state Supreme Court in Erie County, names as defendants 35 law firms and two debt collection agencies who relied on a Long Island company, American Legal Process, to notify consumers they faced debt-related lawsuits.

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Monday, July 06, 2009

Illegal Download Site Pirate Bay Gets Served Via Facebook, Twitter

Never let it be said that the music industry is completely clueless about the digital world; the Dutch antipiracy outfit Brein, perhaps realizing that the medium may be more important than the message a lot of the time these days, has notified the founders of the BitTerrorist haven Pirate Bay that they’re due in court not through a process server, but via Facebook and Twitter.

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